[Swift-devel] Planning next set of Swift features and releases

[Mihael Hategan]

On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 17:08 -0500, Ian Foster wrote:
> It has been a persistent problem getting TG and OSG to consider VMs.
> The reasons are mixed: in my view, some good, some bad. The good
> reasons include the difficulties inherent in getting Xen/VMware
> support for the sometimes odd software found on high-end systems.
> E.g., on TG-UC, both 64-bit hardware and GPFS have been sources of
> problems.

We (swift) can probably plan around GPFS, and possibly other such
"difficulties".

>  The bad reason is a persistent conservatism. 

Is there any way that the problem can be formulated in such a way as to
satisfy both worlds? In my naive view, a node could be used both in a
traditional way, and as a VM host when needed.